Frontiers in Intense Laser-Matter Interactions Theory

Wednesday, September 19 - Friday, September 21
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany

FILMITh 2012 – Program (PDF)

--Wednesday, Sept 19 --
9:00-9:10 Joachain Opening by the chairman of SILMI
9:10-9:40 Schroeder Laser-plasma accelerators for high-energy physics and light source applications Abstract
9:40-10:10 Gamaly Phase transformations produced inside a crystal Abstract
10:10-10:30Psikal Laser-driven proton acceleration enhancement by structured foils (simulations and experiments) Abstract
10:30-11:00 -- BREAK --
11:00-11:30Malka Electron and X ray beams produced by laser plasma accelerators Abstract
11:30-12:00 Grech High energy photon emission and its back-reaction effect in UHI laser-plasma interaction
12:00-14:00 -- LUNCH --
14:00-14:30 Pukhov Laser interaction with thin foils: new sources of radiation and fast particles
14:30-15:00Sheng Two-stage acceleration of protons from relativistic laser-solid interactions
15:00-15:10 Wang Upper-limit power for self-guided propagation of intense lasers in plasma Abstract
15:10-15:40 Silva Novel simulation approaches for laser-plasma accelerators and fast ignition
15:40-16:00 -- BREAK --
16:00-16:20 Meyer-ter-Vehn Giant half-cycle attosecond pulse from ultrathin foils
16:20-16:50 Zepf Coherent Emission from ultraintense laser thin foil interactions Abstract
-- DINNER --

--Thursday, Sept 20 --

9:00-9:30 Rohringer Amplified spontaneous x-ray emission in atomic and molecular gases Abstract
9:30-10:00 Tikhonchuk Electron heating and acceleration in two plasmas colliding with sub-relativistic velocities Abstract
10:00-10:30 Goulielmakis Elements of attosecond control of electrons Abstract
10:30-11:00 -- BREAK --
11:00-11:30 Santra Ultrafast processes in xenon Abstract
11:30-12:00 Yabana Ab-initio description for the interaction of intense laser pulses with solids Abstract
12:00-14:00 -- LUNCH --
14:00-14:30 Demekhin Coherent Intense Laser Pulses Lead to Interference in the Time Domain: Dynamic Interference of Electron Waves Abstract
14:30-15:00 Madsen Strong field ionization of molecules Abstract
15:00-15:30 Marini Phonon-induced dynamics of electrons and excitons in solids driven out-of-equilibrium by strong laser pulses: an Ab-Initio approach Abstract
15:30-16:00 -- BREAK --
16:00-16:30 Maquet Attosecond delays in photoionization: A theoretical perspective Abstract
16:30-17:00 Smirnova Attosecond multielectron dynamics in tunnel ionization Abstract
17:00-17:30 Cederbaum Exploring Intermolecular Coulombic Decay by free electron lasers Abstract
-- DINNER --

--Friday, Sept 21 --

9:00-9:30 Bauer Coulomb-corrected quantum orbits in strong-field ionization Abstract
9:30-10:00 Seipt Strong field QED processes in short laser pulses
10:00-10:30 Keitel Electrons, ions and nuclei in extremely intense laser pulses Abstract
10:30-11:00 -- BREAK --
11:00-11:30 Di Piazza Testing strong-field CED and QED with intense laser fields Abstract
11:30-12:00Marklund Strong field QED effects in laser-matter interactions Abstract
12:00-14:00 -- LUNCH --
14:00-14:30 Ilderton Open problems and challenges in strong field QED Abstract
14:30-15:00 Fedotov Pair creation by collision of intense laser pulse with high-frequency photon beam Abstract
15:00-15:30 Berenyi Pair Production in Strong Fields: The Wigner function approach Abstract
15:30-16:00 -- BREAK --
16:00-16:20 Raczka Particle production effects in laser-matter interactions at ultra-high intensities Abstract
16:20-16:50 NarozhnyVacuum instability in extreme laser fields
-- END 17:00 --
-- POSTERS --
Bamberg The AMR domain
Boca/FlorescuRadiation Reaction Effects in Non-linear Thomson scattering Abstract
Böhl Numerical solution of nonlinear Maxwell’s equations in the PSC [1] (Plasma Simulation Code)
Deutschmann FEL simulation
Dinu Nonlinear Compton Scattering Probabilities Abstract
Elkina Radiation reaction in laser irradiated plasma
Iqbal The retarded effects of an electron bunch
King Trident pair production in a constant-crossed field
Klier Simulation of strong cascading and spontaneous vacuum decay
Kruchinin Light induced currents in dielectrics and wide band gap semiconductors: quantum kinetic approach Abstract
Laasner Band tail absorption saturation in CdWO4 with 100-fs laser pulses Abstract
Lupetti High repetition rate attosecond sources by plasmonic enhancement
Majety Ionic shake-up in the XUV ionization of molecules
Sato Time-dependent density functional theory for ultrafast electron dynamics at solid surfaces Abstract
Siminos Electron heating effect on self-induced transparency in relativistic intensity laser-plasma interaction Abstract
Zielinski A new parallel code implementing t-SURFF: fully differential two-electron spectra at IR wavelength